Aaron Judge may have come by his home-run record honestly, but does anyone else play by the rules? mcgrathben investigates some cheating complaints in chess, poker, and an angling tournament on Lake Erie.
Top of the first, 1–1 count, hanging slider: all rise. With just one more game remaining before the start of the playoffs,, one of the largest players to bat lead-off in baseball’s long history, launched a moon shot for his sixty-second home run of the season, climbing into seventh place in the annals.
Vibration theory has overtaken professional poker as well. At issue is a two-hundred-and-sixty-nine-thousand-dollar hand won recently by Robbi Jade Lew, who had lousy cards. Did she somehow know that her opponent, Garrett Adelstein, had bupkes, too? That’s what Adelstein seemed to suspect. He confronted her—and, strangely, Lew gave him his money back, thereby encouraging a Zapruder-film level of analysis online. Her chair, some noticed, appeared to vibrate sporadically, as if zapped.
Merited or not, the level of competitive distrust calls to mind an ex-President who insists that all elections are rigged. Sports don’t build character, the saying goes. They reveal it. Are we all getting paranoid? Unfortunately, the angling tournament on Lake Erie that made international news the other day doesn’t bode well for the sanguine.
“Now you know why I hate fishing tournaments,” a trout-hunting obsessive e-mailed the other day, and then confessed that he, too, had cheated in the only contest he’d ever entered. “We juiced our flies with smell bait.” He continued, “We brought them to the river, and maybe cast them a few times, didn’t catch anything, and went back to fishing straight. So I should say, we tried to cheat, but quit on it because it wasn’t working.
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